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What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'

GreenBiz

Candidly, Gore is the reason I’m on the corporate climate beat, so I was inspired by the invitation to interview him as a virtual keynote session for SEMICON West , a conference focused on members of the semiconductor industry. It’s well-documented that climate change has a disproportionate impact on communities of color.

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How Big Oil's spin doctors are influencing influencers

Corporate Knights

Today the PR industry propping up the sector is considered one of the biggest obstructions to climate change mitigation. As the medium goes digital and the message becomes more subtle and diffuse, pro-oil marketing is being baked into our social media feeds and infiltrating climate conferences.

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Take Five: Guterres’ Stark Warning

Chris Hall

With much of Pakistan under water, it’s time to take more urgent action against the physical risks of climate change. This comes despite a commitment by signatories of the Glasgow Climate Pact to “revisit and strengthen” their NDCs before arriving in Sharm El Sheik. With NDCs unveiled before and at COP26 charting a path to 2.1°C

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Could the world really become net zero by 2040 ?

Edouard Stenger

This is the opinion of Nigel Topping who served as UN’s High-Level Climate Action Champion at the COP26 organized by the UK. I could dedicate another entire paragraph on decarbonizing our industry as cement and steel are massive contributors to climate change. So one could say he knows what he is talking about.

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Toast Ale Aims to Reduce Food Waste While Educating Consumers About the Global Problem

B the Change

More notably, all partners signed an open letter calling on world leaders to make concrete commitments to tackle the climate crisis at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26). The latter is an opportunity to address climate change, because the food system itself is such a huge contributor.

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Take Five: No Mean Achievement 

Chris Hall

No mean achievement – This time last week we didn’t know whether there would even be a deal at COP27, let alone one dominated by an agreement to create a fund to pay loss and damages to countries suffering from the physical impacts of climate change.

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Sponsored content: Reuters flagship technology event to challenge business leaders to build a fairer, more advanced and sustainable society

Envirotec Magazine

Glenn Fogel, CEO, Booking Holdings and Booking.com. Reuters MOMENTUM follows the launch of Reuters IMPACT, which will mobilize global business leaders to deliver on climate action in October, ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). . • Ryan Lefers, Co-founder and CEO, Red Sea Farm. •

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